week 2 - weekend

[productions]

murder manor week two



saturday & sunday

24 players remaining.

This is a general mingle post. Please put your character's name, the time, and location in the subject heading of their comment. Players may also thread in logs, either posted to murdermanor or in a private locked journal post filtered to include productions.

This post will cover the weekend period from the end of trial Friday evening to early Sunday evening, when new incentives will be announced. No murders will take place over this time.

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SUNDAY - FOYER - 1 PM

[productions]

[At 1 PM, the grandfather clock in the foyer chimes. The display stand placed in the foyer last week is still there, but the card on it has been replaced by a new placard.]

This week, all of you made a mistake. But it wasn't the first time, was it? No, all of you, at some point, have made a mistake, or been unlucky, or did something you regretted. Isn't that right?

Now's the chance to right that wrong! This week, anyone who commits a murder and gets away with it will have the chance to change one moment in their past. Correct a mistake, right a wrong, change fortune in your favor, or simply make a different choice.

Popularity rankings have now been published in the drawing room, along with the extra prizes being given out this week! As always, culprits have the opportunity to retire if they succeed, or keep playing for even better personalized prizes!

[terriblesister]

[just... staring confused at that incentive...]

...Huh...?

[speakveryclearly]

You could save a life,

[She remarks absently. Clearly somewhere else psychologically. A sad place.]

If you made some callous remark to somebody who later went off the handle, you could unsay those words.

[terriblesister]

I-It's not that.

Isn't this basically time travel? [ONCE MORE, WE ARE ENTERING THE LANDS OF 'WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON']

[vytis]

They must be bluffing. [Lithuania is looking at the incentive with a lot of surprise on his face, really.] They can't possibly have the ability to change the past.

[terriblesister]

...


They're just acting like they can and expecting we'll jump.

[vytis]

I hope no one jumps. [He really hopes. But if anyone really believes this...]

[terriblesister]

...Right. [the confidence is high here, yes...]

[speakveryclearly]

Didn't you hear Bernkastel's rambling about the anachronistic aesthetics? That's already been established as an aspect of our situation.

[terriblesister]

...Yes, because no-one's built an old fashioned house before.

[speakveryclearly]

I think the nations said something else to the same effect? I'm no expert on Earth history but ask them what year they thought it was to make sure.

[terriblesister]

1920s. Golden age of detective fiction. Bernkastel mentioned that too.

It could easily be on purpose. That fence definitely isn't 1920s. The toilets and plumbing are modern from my perspective. That's got to mean it's a modern house.

It's like a film set, or something.

[speakveryclearly]

Maybe...

And maybe Bernkastel's execution was a film too.

[terriblesister]

...It was a film. They showed it on a projector and everything.

[speakveryclearly]

I mean just a film as opposed to the documentation of real-life events we were all assuming.

[terriblesister]

[o-oh that...]

...I thought they'd just dropped her down a hole...

[speakveryclearly]

You think a witch would die when you dropped her down a hole?

[respecting]

[Beat's eyes shoot over towards her at that]

[speakveryclearly]

[She barely even reacts.]

If you had been in the wrong position you probably might even avert a genocide or something. Just as an example not entirely implausible with the amount of royalty we have here.

[terriblesister]

Beat. No.

[respecting]

[he looks like he got caught raiding the cookie jar.]

-I wasn't thinkin' about it!

[terriblesister]

Look, I know you want to help your sister but you can't. kill.

Death won't solve anything!

[respecting]

I know! I was just surprised, all right?

[Beat shoves his hands into his pocket, where Rhyme's pin is. It hurts. There's a weight on his heart - secrets untold. Last week's was "It's Beat's fault his sister died." Although he doesn't remember it, it was detailed out for his convenience. "Somebody that went off the handle," Kanaya had said. It struck a nerve.]

[terriblesister]

...Okay.

[just... patting him on the shoulder. She's sorry but... this isn't a way to help her]

[humanic]

[He crosses his arms.]

That is the stupidest incentive I've ever heard of. As if these assholes would have the power to do anything like that! All that'll happen is that they'll probably mess with our own memories to make us think we got what we wanted without actually changing anything.